Your Bones Are Changing in Silence. Here's What No One Told You

You have always been active. You move your body, you eat well, you take care of yourself. You have never broken a bone. Every blood test you have ever taken has come back clean. If someone asked you to name your health worries, your skeleton would not make the list. Why would it? That is exactly the reasoning that lets bone loss go unnoticed for years. Consider what happened to Pauza's founder, whose experience prompted this article. In her late forties, active her whole life and a former dancer, she asked her primary care doctor for a DEXA scan. It is a bone density test that women in the United States are not typically offered until 65, and her doctor had not raised it. She asked on instinct, having started to understand that estrogen does more than she had been told, and wanting a (...)

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